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POLITICS ON THE EDGE - RORY STEWART GEBUNDEN

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart  former
Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics 'The most
exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON 'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE 'At
last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS The Times Political Book of the Year and pick
for *The Biggest Books of the Autumn* Over the course of a decade from 2010  Rory Stewart went
from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a
Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood
response and prison violence  engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister 
and Brexit as a Cabinet minister  Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our
democracy and government had become. Cronyism  ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant.
Around him  individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of
today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith
and the Border  and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.
Uncompromising  candid and darkly humorous  Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges
absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age. **A FINANCIAL
TIMES  GUARDIAN  SUNDAY TIMES  DAILY TELEGRAPH  TIMES  OBSERVER  i NEWSPAPER  NEW STATESMAN 
PROSPECT  CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** Politics on the Edge was a #1
Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23-16.09.23  and 09.12.23-16.12.23  and 30.12.23-06.01.24

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